Awards
Swell Sculpture Festival 2018 Currumbin RSL People's Choice Award
Swell Sculpture Festival 2018 Griffith University School of Humanities Kids' Choice Award Swell Sculpture Festival 2015 Smalls Gallery People's Choice Award Swell Sculpture Festival 2015 Peer Award Swell Sculpture Festival 2014 Currumbin RSL People's Choice Award Swell Sculpture Festival 2014 Smalls Gallery People's Choice Award Darcy Doyle Boomerang Farm 2014 People's Choice Award Sculpture Swell Sculpture Festival 2013 Griffith University School of Humanities Kids' Choice Award Swell Sculpture Festival 2012 Griffith University School of Humanities Kids' Choice Award Swell Sculpture Festival 2012 Smalls Gallery People's Choice Marymount College Art Competition 2012 People's Choice Award Marymount College Art Competition 2010 First Prize Sculpture Gold Coast Show 2010 Visual Arts- People’s Choice Trinity Lutheran College Art and Craft Competition 2010 First Prize Swell Sculpture Festival Currumbin RSL People’s Choice Award- 2004, 2006 & 2008 2006 Gold Coast Sun Media Award 2006 Neumann Group Smalls Artist Award Paradise Kids Annual Art Exhibition 2005 Sculpture Division- First Prize People’s Choice- First Prize Royal Brisbane Show 2005 Freestyle Sculpture Sculptor’s Society Gold Coast Inc. 2005 Member’s Exhibition AFA Award of Excellence- First Prize John Cooper Memorial Award- Second Prize Tony Palmer Memorial Award- Third Prize Sculptor's Society Gold Coast Exotic Erotic Exhibition-2005 First Prize Springfest Arts and Craft Festival Award for Sculpture 2005, 2006 & 2007-First Prize St Margaret’s Inaugural Sculpture Competition 2006 First Prize |
Exhibitions2014 Gold Coast Airport, QLD.
2013 Woodford Folk Festival, QLD 2013 Gold Coast Arts Festival, Evandale, QLD 2013 Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Melbourne. 2012 Gold Coast Arts Festival Broadwater, QLD 2010 Border Art Prize, Murwillumbah, NSW. 2009 Sculpture by the Sea, Cotttesloe, WA. 2008 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW. 2008 Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, SA. 2008 Jackman Gallery Group Sculpture Exhibition, S.A. 2008 Kings Christian College Easter Arts Exhibition, QLD 2007 Solo Exhibition, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne , SA. 2006 Royal Pines Resort "Sisters of Swing". QLD.  OtherThe Age Diary, October 24, 2007 Australian Art Collector, Issues 39, 41, 42 & 43 Art Almanac ABC: State Wide, ABC: Australia Wide Channel 9: Gold Coast News & Extra Channel 7: Great South East Daily Telegraph October 18, 2008 The Sydney Morning Herald, October 16th, 2008 The Australian, October 27th, 2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/7979819/Artist-Ivan-Lovatt-makes-sculptures-of-famous-faces-using-nothing-but-chicken-wire.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1308717/Getting-art-fence-Ivan-Lovatts-extraordinary-sculptures-CHICKEN-WIRE.html https://19karen.com.au/swell-sculpture-awards-2018-announced-congratulations-ivan-Lovatt/ http://www.swellsculpture.com.au/blog/2018/8/30/in-conversation-ivan-lovatt |
Installations and Collections
Represented in private and public collections, in Australia and overseas.
Jackman Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne
Ripley's "Beleive it or Not" Museums in USA, Australia and UK.
Capanart Gallery, Tamborine Mountain, Gold Coast, QLD.
19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast, QLD
Lion Pride Lands, Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo, NSW
Jackman Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne
Ripley's "Beleive it or Not" Museums in USA, Australia and UK.
Capanart Gallery, Tamborine Mountain, Gold Coast, QLD.
19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast, QLD
Lion Pride Lands, Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo, NSW